Belfast South (UK Parliament constituency)
Belfast South | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Belfast South in Northern Ireland. | |
Districts of Northern Ireland | Belfast, Castlereagh |
Electorate | 60,914 (March 2011) |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1922 |
Member of parliament | Alasdair McDonnell (SDLP) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Belfast Cromac, Belfast Ormeau |
1885–1918 | |
Number of members | One |
Type of constituency | Borough constituency |
Replaced by | Belfast Cromac, Belfast Ormeau |
Created from | Belfast |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | Northern Ireland |
Belfast South is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. It has been represented since 2005 by Alasdair McDonnell of the Social Democratic and Labour Party
Boundaries
1950-1974: The County Borough of Belfast wards of Cromac, Ormeau, and Windsor.
1974-1983: The County Borough of Belfast wards of Cromac, Ormeau, and Windsor, the Rural District of Lisburn electoral divisions of Ardmore, Dunmurry, Finaghy, and Upper Malone, and the Rural District of Hillsborough electoral divisions of Breda and Edenderry.
1983-1997: The District of Belfast wards of Ballynafeigh, Cromac, Donegall, Finaghy, Malone, Ormeau, Rosetta, St George's, Stranmillis, University, Upper Malone, Willowfield, and Windsor.
1997-2010: The District of Belfast wards of Ballynafeigh, Blackstaff, Botanic, Finaghy, Malone, Musgrave, Ravenhill, Rosetta, Shaftesbury, Stranmillis, Upper Malone, Windsor, and Woodstock, and the District of Castlereagh wards of Beechill, Cairnshill, Galwally, Knockbracken, Minnowburn, and Newtownbreda.
2010-present: The District of Belfast wards of Ballynafeigh, Blackstaff, Botanic, Finaghy, Malone, Musgrave, Ravenhill, Rosetta, Shaftesbury, Stranmillis, Upper Malone, Windsor, and Woodstock, and the District of Castlereagh wards of Beechill, Cairnshill, Carryduff East, Carryduff West, Galwally, Hillfoot, Knockbracken, Minnowburn, Newtownbreda, and Wynchurch.
The seat was created in 1922 when, as part of the establishment of the devolved Stormont Parliament for Northern Ireland, the number of MPs in the Westminster Parliament was drastically cut. The seat is centred on the Belfast City Council districts of Balmoral, Laganbank and Pottinger and also contains part of the district of Castlereagh.
Prior to the 2010 general election the Boundary Commission proposed expanding Belfast South further into Castlereagh, taking in areas currently contained in both Strangford and Belfast East. This was strongly opposed by the DUP but supported by the Ulster Unionists. It was also one of the issues which generated the most negative comments in the written submissions with a petition representing half of Cregagh's residents opposing its move.
Following the local enquiries, the Boundary Commission proposed retaining the Cregagh ward in East Belfast while transferring instead the Hillfoot ward. These proposals were submitted as final recommendations and were put into force through the passing of the Northern Ireland Parliamentary Constituencies Order[1] in 2008.
History
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Belfast South tended to elect 'rebel unionists' such as William Johnston, who famously defied a ban on Orange marches, and Thomas Sloan, founder of the Independent Orange Order.
Belfast South, centred on the River Lagan contains some of Belfast's most exclusive residential districts as well as Queen's University Belfast, and the overall tenor of the constituency is middle-class – young, trendy and cosmopolitan towards the city centre, with Northern Ireland's biggest concentrations of both students and ethnic minorities, and settled and prosperous further out. Despite this, significant pockets of inner-city working class areas such as the Markets and a number of isolated suburban estates are in the constituency.
There has been particularly rapid demographic change in Belfast South over the past 20 years, change which seems to be continuing. Since the 2011 census, Belfast South consists of a slightly larger Catholic population than Protestant. Belfast South traditionally had a unionist majority, but the nationalist vote has now surpassed this in more recent elections. There have also been strong votes for other parties such as the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, the Conservatives and the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition. The seat has also seen a steady series of candidates backed by groups who aspire to support the British Labour Party despite its prior ban on membership and organisation in Northern Ireland, though their results have been minimal. Until the 1990s the main focus of attention has been on contests between unionist candidates.
In the February 1974 general election the seat was won by Robert Bradford of the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party on a united anti-Sunningdale Agreement slate with the Ulster Unionist Party and the Democratic Unionist Party. He defeated Rafton Pounder, the sitting Unionist MP who defended his seat as a pro-Assembly unionist. Bradford held the seat for the next seven years, though in February 1978 he and the rump of Vanguard reunited with the Ulster Unionists. At the end of 1981 Bradford was assassinated by the IRA in a Belfast community centre while hosting a political surgery.
The subsequent by-election garnered much interest as it was expected that the Democratic Unionist Party would take the seat, building on their steady rise which had seen them gain both Belfast North and Belfast East at the previous general election. However, the DUP came third, behind the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, and the UUP's candidate Martin Smyth won the seat, holding it until 2005. The by-election was extremely significant at the time in that it was the first at which the DUP tide ebbed.
In the 2001 general election less than 50% of voters voted for unionist parties for the first time in its history, but this has been attributed to a collapse in the vote for the small Progressive Unionist Party as well as to Smyth's fierce opposition to the Good Friday Agreement which is estimated to have sent many pro-Agreement unionist voters to vote tactically for the Social Democratic and Labour Party.
In January 2005 Smyth announced that he would be retiring at the 2005 general election, raising speculation both as to whom the Ulster Unionists would field in succession to him and what effect a different candidate would have upon their share of the vote. The UUP selected Assembly member Michael McGimpsey, albeit with a highly controversial and bitter selection. The aftermath saw McGimpsey repudiated by many prominent local and national Ulster Unionists, including both Smyth and former UUP leader James Molyneaux. The DUP selected Jimmy Spratt and offered an electoral pact to the UUP that would give each party a free run at one out of South Belfast and Fermanagh and South Tyrone. This offer was rejected by the UUP.
In the event, the DUP and UUP both fielded candidates which split the vote, while the nationalist vote mainly went for the SDLP over Sinn Féin, with the result that the SDLP took the seat despite a majority of votes cast for unionist candidates.
In 2010, Sinn Féin opted not to stand against the SDLP to avoid splitting the nationalist vote. This effort was successful as the SDLP won the seat with a majority of 6,000. This was the seat in which the Alliance Party had their second-best showing, polling 15% of the votes. Alasdair McDonnell retained the seat in May 2015, with only 24.5% of the vote. This is the smallest proportion of the vote a winning candidate has ever achieved in a UK general election.[2]
Members of Parliament
The Member of Parliament since the 2005 general election is Alasdair McDonnell of the Social Democratic and Labour Party. He succeeded the Rev Martin Smyth of the Ulster Unionist Party, who had sat for the seat from a by-election in 1982 until retiring at the 2005 election.
Election results
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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SDLP | Alasdair McDonnell | 9,560 | 24.5 | -16.5 | |
DUP | Jonathan Bell | 8,654 | 22.2 | -1.5 | |
Alliance | Paula Bradshaw | 6,711 | 17.2 | +2.3 | |
Sinn Féin | Máirtín Ó Muilleoir | 5,402 | 13.9 | N/A | |
UUP | Rodney McCune | 3,549 | 9.1 | -8.2 | |
Green (NI) | Clare Bailey | 2,238 | 5.7 | +2.7 | |
UKIP | Bob Stoker | 1,900 | 4.9 | N/A | |
NI Conservatives | Ben Manton | 582 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Workers' Party | Lily Kerr | 361 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 906 | 2.3 | -15.0 | ||
Turnout | 38,957 | 60.0 | +2.6 | ||
SDLP hold | Swing | -7.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
SDLP | Alasdair McDonnell | 14,026 | 41.0 | +8.7 | |
DUP | Jimmy Spratt | 8,100 | 23.7 | -5.9 | |
UCU-NF | Paula Bradshaw[8] | 5,910 | 17.3 | -4.9 | |
Alliance | Anna Lo | 5,114 | 15.0 | +7.7 | |
Green (NI) | Adam McGibbon | 1,036 | 3.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,926 | 17.3 | |||
Turnout | 34,186 | 57.4 | -5.1 | ||
SDLP hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
SDLP | Alasdair McDonnell | 10,339 | 32.3 | +1.7 | |
DUP | Jimmy Spratt | 9,104 | 28.4 | N/A | |
UUP | Michael McGimpsey | 7,263 | 22.7 | -22.1 | |
Sinn Féin | Alex Maskey | 2,882 | 9.0 | +1.4 | |
Alliance | Geraldine Rice | 2,012 | 6.3 | +0.9 | |
Rainbow Dream Ticket | Lynda Gilby | 235 | 0.7 | +0.4 | |
Workers' Party | Paddy Lynn | 193 | 0.6 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 1,235 | 3.9 | |||
Turnout | 32,028 | 60.8 | -3.1 | ||
SDLP gain from UUP | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Martin Smyth | 17,008 | 44.8 | +8.8 | |
SDLP | Alasdair McDonnell | 11,609 | 30.6 | +6.3 | |
NI Women's Coalition | Monica McWilliams | 2,968 | 7.8 | 0.0 | |
Sinn Féin | Alex Maskey | 2,894 | 7.6 | +2.5 | |
Alliance | Geraldine Rice | 2,042 | 5.4 | -7.6 | |
PUP | Dawn Purvis | 1,112 | 2.9 | -11.5 | |
Workers' Party | Paddy Lynn | 204 | 0.5 | -0.2 | |
Rainbow Dream Ticket | Rainbow George Weiss | 115 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,399 | 14.2 | |||
Turnout | 37,952 | 63.9 | +1.6 | ||
UUP hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Martin Smyth | 14,201 | 36.0 | -18.7 | |
SDLP | Alasdair McDonnell | 9,601 | 24.3 | +10.1 | |
PUP | David Ervine | 5,687 | 14.4 | N/A | |
Alliance | Steve McBride | 5,112 | 12.9 | -2.8 | |
Sinn Féin | Seán Hayes | 2,019 | 5.1 | +2.6 | |
NI Women's Coalition | Annie Campbell | 1,204 | 3.0 | N/A | |
NI Conservatives | Myrtle Boal | 962 | 2.4 | -9.3 | |
Independent Labour | Niall Cusack | 292 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Workers' Party | Paddy Lynn | 286 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Natural Law | James Anderson | 120 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,600 | ||||
Turnout | 62.2 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing | ||||
1997 Changes are compared to the 1992 notional results shown below.[12]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | N/A | 23,258 | 52.7 | N/A | |
Alliance | N/A | 6,921 | 15.7 | N/A | |
SDLP | N/A | 6,266 | 14.2 | N/A | |
NI Conservatives | N/A | 5,154 | 11.7 | N/A | |
Others | N/A | 1,437 | 3.3 | N/A | |
Sinn Féin | N/A | 1,116 | 2.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 16,337 | 37.0 | N/A | ||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Martin Smyth | 16,336 | 48.6 | ||
SDLP | Alasdair McDonnell | 6,266 | 18.7 | ||
Alliance | John Montgomery | 5,054 | 15.0 | ||
NI Conservatives | Andrew Fee | 3,356 | 10.0 | ||
Sinn Féin | Seán Hayes | 1,123 | 3.3 | ||
Labour and Trade Union | Peter Hadden | 875 | 2.6 | ||
Workers' Party | Paddy Lynn | 362 | 1.1 | ||
Natural Law | Teresa Mullen | 212 | 0.6 | ||
Majority | 10,070 | ||||
Turnout | 64.5 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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UUP | Martin Smyth | 18,917 | 57.8 | ||
Alliance | David Cook | 6,963 | 21.3 | ||
SDLP | Alasdair McDonnell | 4,268 | 13.1 | ||
Workers' Party | Gerry Carr | 1,528 | 4.7 | ||
Sinn Féin | Seán McKnight | 1,030 | 3.2 | ||
Majority | 11,954 | 36.6 | |||
Turnout | 60.3 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Martin Smyth | 21,771 | 71.3 | ||
Alliance | David Cook | 7,635 | 25.0 | ||
Workers' Party | Gerry Carr | 1,109 | 3.6 | ||
Majority | 14,136 | 46.3 | |||
Turnout | 56.9 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing | ||||
Note: The by-election was caused by the decision of all Unionist MPs to resign their seats and seek re-election on a platform of opposition to the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Martin Smyth | 18,669 | 50.0 | ||
Alliance | David Cook | 8,945 | 23.9 | ||
DUP | Raymond McCrea | 4,565 | 12.2 | ||
SDLP | Alasdair McDonnell | 3,216 | 8.6 | ||
Sinn Féin | Sean McKnight | 1,107 | 3.0 | ||
Workers' Party | Gerry Carr | 856 | 2.3 | ||
Majority | 9,724 | 26.0 | |||
Turnout | 69.6 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Martin Smyth | 17,123 | 39.3 | ||
Alliance | David Cook | 11,726 | 26.9 | ||
DUP | William McCrea | 9,818 | 22.6 | ||
SDLP | Alasdair McDonnell | 3,839 | 8.8 | ||
Ulster Loyalist Democratic Party | John McMichael | 576 | 1.3 | ||
United Labour Party | Brian Caul | 303 | 0.7 | ||
One Human Family | Jagat Narain | 137 | 0.3 | ||
Peace State | Simon Hall-Raleigh | 12 | 0.03 | ||
Majority | 5,397 | 12.4 | |||
Turnout | 66.2 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Robert Jonathan Bradford | 28,875 | 61.7 | ||
Alliance | Basil Glass | 11,745 | 25.1 | ||
SDLP | Alasdair McDonnell | 3,694 | 7.9 | ||
Unionist Party NI | Victor Brennan | 1,784 | 3.8 | N/A | |
Labour Integrationist | Jeffrey Dudgeon | 692 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 17,130 | 36.6 | |||
Turnout | 67.9 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vanguard | Robert Jonathan Bradford | 30,116 | 59.2 | ||
Alliance | John Glass | 11,715 | 23.0 | ||
Independent Unionist | Stanley McMaster | 4,982 | 9.8 | N/A | |
SDLP | Ben Caraher | 2,390 | 4.7 | ||
NI Labour | Erskine Holmes | 1,643 | 3.2 | ||
Majority | 18,401 | 36.2 | |||
Turnout | 50,846 | 67.7 | |||
Vanguard hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vanguard | Robert Jonathan Bradford | 22,083 | 42.6 | N/A | |
Pro-Assembly Unionist | Rafton Pounder | 18,085 | 34.9 | ||
Alliance | David Cook | 5,118 | 9.9 | N/A | |
SDLP | Ben Caraher | 4,149 | 8.0 | N/A | |
NI Labour | Erskine Holmes | 2,455 | 4.7 | ||
Majority | 3,998 | 7.7 | |||
Turnout | 51,890 | 69.6 | |||
Vanguard gain from UUP | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Rafton Pounder | 27,523 | 70.4 | ||
NI Labour | John Coulthard | 11,567 | 29.6 | ||
Majority | 15,956 | 40.8 | |||
Turnout | 39,090 | 68.4 | |||
UUP hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Rafton Pounder | 23,329 | 65.4 | ||
NI Labour | Erskine Holmes | 12,364 | 34.6 | ||
Majority | 10,965 | 30.7 | |||
Turnout | 35,693 | 63.3 | |||
UUP hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Rafton Pounder | 27,422 | 69.8 | ||
NI Labour | John Barkley | 8,792 | 22.4 | ||
Liberal | Judith Rosenfield | 1,941 | 4.9 | ||
Independent Republican | Robert McKnight | 1,159 | 3.0 | ||
Majority | 18,630 | 47.4 | |||
Turnout | 39,314 | 68.3 | |||
UUP hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Rafton Pounder | 17,989 | |||
NI Labour | Norman Searight | 7,209 | |||
Liberal | Albert Hamilton | 2,774 | |||
Majority | 10,780 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
UUP hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | David Campbell | 30,164 | 69.9 | ||
NI Labour | Norman Searight | 9,318 | 21.6 | ||
Liberal | Sheelagh Murnaghan | 3,253 | 7.5 | ||
Sinn Féin | Brendan O'Reilly | 434 | 1.0 | ||
Majority | 20,846 | 48.3 | |||
Turnout | 43,169 | 72.1 | |||
UUP hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | David Campbell | 33,392 | 78.4 | ||
NI Labour | Edward Brown | 7,508 | 17.6 | ||
Sinn Féin | Patrick Kearney | 1,679 | 3.9 | ||
Majority | 25,884 | 60.8 | |||
Turnout | 42,579 | 65.7 | |||
UUP hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | David Campbell | 23,067 | 75.1 | ||
NI Labour | Samuel Napier | 7,655 | 24.9 | ||
Majority | 15,412 | ||||
Turnout | 46.4 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Hugh Gage | 37,046 | 75.8 | ||
NI Labour | Robert McBrinn | 11,815 | 24.2 | ||
Majority | 25,231 | 51.6 | |||
Turnout | 48,861 | 73.8 | |||
UUP hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Hugh Gage | 34,620 | 75.2 | ||
NI Labour | James McKernan | 11,428 | 24.8 | ||
Majority | 23,192 | 50.4 | |||
Turnout | 46,048 | 69.3 | |||
UUP hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Conolly Hugh Gage | 24,282 | 52.2 | ||
Commonwealth Labour | Harry Midgley | 14,096 | 30.3 | ||
NI Labour | James Morrow | 8,166 | 17.5 | ||
Majority | 10,186 | 21.9 | |||
Turnout | 46,544 | 66.4 | |||
UUP hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | William Stewart | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
UUP hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | William Stewart | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
UUP hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | William John Stewart | 24,019 | 62.9 | n/a | |
Independent Unionist | Philip James Woods | 14,148 | 37.1 | n/a | |
Majority | 9,871 | 25.9 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 38,167 | 64.7 | n/a | ||
UUP hold | Swing | n/a | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Thomas Moles | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
UUP hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Thomas Moles | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
UUP hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Thomas Moles | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
UUP hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Irish Unionist | William Arthur Lindsay | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Irish Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Irish Unionist | James Chambers | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Irish Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Irish Unionist | James Chambers | 5,585 | |||
Independent Unionist | Thomas Henry Sloan | 2,722 | |||
Majority | 2,863 | ||||
Turnout | 8,307 | 78.2 | |||
Irish Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Irish Unionist | James Chambers | 5,772 | |||
Independent Unionist | Thomas Henry Sloan | 3,553 | |||
Majority | 2,219 | ||||
Turnout | 9,325 | 87.8 | |||
Irish Unionist gain from Independent Unionist | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent Unionist | Thomas Henry Sloan | 4,450 | N/A | ||
Irish Unionist | Lord Arthur Hill | 3,634 | N/A | ||
Majority | 816 | N/A | |||
Turnout | 8,084 | 84.8 | N/A | ||
Independent Unionist gain from Conservative | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent Unionist | Thomas Henry Sloan | 3,795 | N/A | ||
Conservative | C. W. Dunbar Buller | 2,969 | N/A | ||
Majority | 826 | N/A | |||
Turnout | 6,764 | 60.1 | N/A | ||
Independent Unionist gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Johnston | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Johnston | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Johnston | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Johnston | 4,442 | |||
Irish Parliamentary | A. McErlean | 657 | |||
Majority | 3,785 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Johnston | 3,610 | |||
Irish Parliamentary | J. W. Workman | 990 | |||
Conservative | R. Seeds | 871 | |||
Majority | 2,620 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
See also
References
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4. Correction: Clare Bailey, Green Party in Northern Ireland (not Green Party of England and Wales)
Further reading
- F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918 – 1949
- F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950 – 1970
- The Liberal Year Book For 1917, Liberal Publication Department
- The Constitutional Year Book For 1912, Conservative Central Office
- The Constitutional Year Book For 1894, Conservative Central Office
External links
- BBC News, Election 2005
- BBC News, Vote 2001
- Guardian Unlimited Politics
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 2)
- http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ (Election results from 1951 to the present)